Imagine that Charles Perrow and Diane Vaughan are in a dialogue concerning the relevance of their accounts of organizational failures and major accidents, and you are speaking on their behalf. The subject of the debate is whetherVaughan’s explanation of “organizational-technical” accidents – as described in the Challenger case – also applies to the Three Mile Island (TMI) disaster? In your essay, firstconcisely explain at least one main way you might apply Vaughan’s theory to all or parts of Perrow’s account of TMI. Second, concisely explain how you believe Perrow would respond to the accusation that his account ofthe “normal accident” at TMI is really a case of an organizational technical accident. Finally, you get the last word: take a position on the “fit” of the two theoretical frameworks – was TMI better characterized as a normal accident, or organizational-technical? Why?

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